AI, ML, Robots and Brains (3.5. - 9.5.2021)

Society

Defining a role for AI ethics in national security

Machine-learning project takes aim at disinformation

Can an AI algorithm mitigate racial economic inequality? Only if more black hosts adopt it

AI consumes a lot of energy. Hackers could make it consume more.

How to stop AI from recognizing your face in selfies

Algorithms

AI is not perfect -- Domain knowledge is a key in engineering

Researchers develop artificial intelligence that can detect sarcasm in social media

Google's AI photo app uses crowdsourcing to preserve endangered languages

Miso's AI-powered app ensures your burger or steak is properly cooked

Vodafone using Google's cloud and AI to retain customers

Grocery stores in Poland will trial an AI pricing system for reducing food waste

An uncrackable combination of invisible ink and artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence makes great microscopes better than ever

Experts develop artificial intelligence to monitor water quality more effectively

An artificial neural network joins the fight against receding glaciers

Machine learning accelerates cosmological simulations

New application of AI just removed one of the biggest roadblocks in astrophysics

Health

A machine learning platform to estimate anti-SARS-CoV-2 activities

Trial demonstrates early AI-guided detection of heart disease in routine practice

Artificial intelligence system may improve diagnosis of complicated metastatic cancers

AI spots individual neurons in the eye better than human experts

Robots

Why robots need reflexes - interview

Need a snack on the go? Kroger tests drone delivery program in Ohio that could help

New drone techniques to survey wildlife

Smart magnetic soft materials to develop artificial muscles and therapeutic robots

Robotic flexing: biologically inspired artificial muscles made from motor proteins

Muscle-fiber inspired pneumatic artificial muscles for multiple-mode actuations

Cars

Tesla Robotaxi rollout gets supports from FL Mayor advocating for Boring Company tunnels

The Station: Lyft sells its self-driving unit, Uber makes a big product push and Revel jumps into ride-hailing

VW will design its own chips for self-driving cars

Volkswagen says it can profitably sell a self-driving system for €7 an hour

Argo's new lidar sensor could help Ford, VW deploy self-driving vehicles at scale

Argo AI says its latest LiDAR sensor has a 400-meter range

GM CEO Mary Barra wants to sell personal autonomous vehicles using Cruise's self-driving tech by 2030

Pioneering study explores passengers' experiences of self-driving cars in winter conditions

SMART evaluates impact of competition between autonomous vehicles and public transit

Hardware

Scientists at NREL report new synapse-like phototransistor

New synapse-like phototransistor

Lightmatter's photonic AI ambitions light up an $80M B round

Brains

Animals laugh too, analysis of vocalization data suggests

The longer the yawn, the bigger the brain

Computational model demonstrates similarity in how humans and insects learn about their surroundings

The cerebellum may have played an important role in the evolution of the human brain

Unique characteristics of human neurons: These findings may have implications for brain disease, disorders

How proteins control information processing in the brain

Neural mechanism of autonomous learning uncovered

Study reveals the gateway to conscious awareness

How we retrieve our knowledge about the world

The sensitive brain at rest

A sleep expert explains what happens to your brain when you dream

Why we remember more by reading—especially print—than from audio or video

Researchers wirelessly record human brain activity during normal life activities

New imaging technique captures how brain moves in stunning detail, holds diagnostic potential

Mini 3D brain models could speed up search for MS treatments